Improvement in bag-holders



M. P. MOULE. 'BAG-HOLDER..

No. 192,652. 7 Patented July 3, 187 7.

fitness es Inventor MOSES P. MOULE, OF SPAFFORD, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT m BAG-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 192,652, dated July 3,1877 application filed November 11, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MOSES P. MOULE, of the town of Spafi'ord, county ofOnondaga, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Bag-Holders, which improvement is fully set forth in the followingspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

lhe object of my invention is to afl'ord a means whereby bags of variouslengths may be suspended and held for the reception of grain or othercommodities, with their bodies resting upon a base, so that in fillingthe bag the weight of its increasing contents may not be thrown whollyupon the month.

In the drawing, B represents the base of my device. A A are frontstandards, bent rearward or connected by tie-pieces at the top to therear standard 0. H H are braces, which at the rear form handles formoving the machine from place to place.

The front standards A A form ways for curved slides U S, the edge of oneof which is adapted to be shut down past the edge of the other to clampa portion of the mouth of the bag and hold it open, following therearward curve of the said slides or clamps.

In order to bring the slides together to grasp and hold the bag, leversL L, one or more, are pivoted to one slide, and connected to the otherby jointed links K K, whereby the working of the lever or levers willmove the slides to or from each other and clamp or release the bag.

Besides the movement to and from each other, the slides may be given amovement in unison, whether held together or apart, upon the standards AA, whereby their height may be adjusted to the length of the bag. Uponthe standard G, at a point above the reach of standards A A, is apulley, P, over which is passed a cord attached at one end to one of theslides, and at the other having a weight. By this means the clamps orslides, when applied to the mouth of the bag, will automatically adjustthemselves to its length, and the body of the bag will be heldsufficiently tense, while the weight of the material it receives will bemainly borne by the base or floor of the device.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. The combination, in a bag-holder, of the slides or clamps U S, waysupon which they may be simultaneously raised or lowered, andoperating-levers L, substantially as described.

2. The combination, in a bag-holdcr, of the slides or clamps U S, theiroperating-levers L, the ways A A, pulley, cord, and weight,substantially as described.

M. P. MOULE.

Witnesses A. B. GRIFFIN, G. M. KIRSH.

